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Graham Stewart with the stories and issues making the news in business.

Graham Stewart with the stories and issues making the news in business from Scotland, the UK and around the world.

The Business: 01/02/2009

01/02/2009

BBC Radio Scotland - The Business, 01/02/2009

Graham Stewart on the new battleground over online classified advertising.

Graham Stewart on the new battleground over online classified advertising; plus the new chairman of Scottish Enterprise shares his his vision.

Presented by Graham Stewart.

The BBC's diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, reports live the final morning of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, where world leaders and senior business figures have been discussing the global economic crisis.

Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI's Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Council, reveals how small and medium-sized manufacturing companies are shedding staff at the fastest rate since the early 1990s, according to its latest survey.

The newly appointed chairman of Scottish Enterprise, Crawford Gillies, shares his vision for the agency and talks about his other role as chairman of the Saltire Foundation, a charity which is helping to develop Scotland's corporate leaders of the future.

As advertisers increasingly shift their business to the web, we examine the new battleground in the online classified advertising market with Peter Gilliespie of search.co.uk, and Douglas McCabe from the media and telecoms research company Enders Analysis.

And Peter Russian, chief executive of Investors in People Scotland, outlines his healthy '5-a-day' approach to negotiate the economic climate.

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